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Rearing work to secure parasites to send to America was started 
with P. dispar at Galgamacsa, Hungary, on a large scale on May 25. By 
the end of the month 64,000 larvae had been collected, but parasites had 
not started to issue. Similar work was begun at Oszro, Hungary, on May 
29. 
The reported Rhyacionia buoliana infestation at Berndorf, Austria, 
was found to be an infestation by Evetria duplana (Huebn.) Small larvae 
were feeding between the buds on the sunny sides of the trees. 
On May 26 large scale rearing work to obtain parasites of Rhy— 
acionia buoliana Schiff. was started at Oberpullendorf, Austria. Mr. 
W. F. Sellars, of the Budapest, Hungary, sublaboratory, directed the work. 
By the end of May 48,775 apparently infested pine shoots were collected. 
“xamination of the shoots showed that, because the feeding larvae often 
leave one shoot and bore into another, many of them were empty. In all 
10,800 larvae, 11,165 R. buoliana pupae, and several hundred. parasites 
were Obtained. The parasites were sent to the Melrose Highlands labora-~ 
tory each day. 
C. F. W. Muesebeck, R. C. Brown, and D. L. Parker, of the gipsy 
moth laboratory, have taken care of shipments of parasites of Rhyacionia 
buoliana which reached the laboratory from Oberpullendorf, Austria. 
Pupae of R. buoliana containing large numbers of chalcidoid larvae—— 
possibly a species of Copidosoma——have also been received from Austria. 
Mr. Muesebeck reports that 169 adults of Brachymeria intermedia 
Nees, a pupal parasite of the gipsy moth not yet established in the 
United States, were liberated in Plymouth, Mass., on June 18. These 
specimens were received from Jugoslavia in the summer of 1930 and car-— 
ried through the winter at the laboratory. 
Mr. Muesebeck also states that 50 adults of Mesoleius tenthre— 
dinis Morley, a parasite of the larch sawfly (Lygaeonematus erichsonii 
Htg.) were received from the Parasite Laboratory of the Canadian Ento-— 
mological Branch, June 24, and have been liberated in Lunenburg, Mass. 
This parasite was introduced into Canada from England several years ago 
and has become established there. 
CEREAL AND FORAGE INSECTS 
At the request of State officials of Utah, Idaho, and Nevada, 
George I. Reeves and Dr. J. C. Hamlin attended the annual meeting of the 
Shippers' Advisory Board at Ogden, Utah, on June 22. At this meeting 
resolutions based on the alfalfa meal investigations by this Division were 
adopted. 
An exchange of species of Empoasca and of literature pertaining to 
this genus was recently completed with Prof. Guido Paoli, Chivari, Italy, 
at his request. 
